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History, by H. Neal Parker 

Transactions in the Caffey Tract

 

The following references to the deed records all involve the Caffey tract.  The number or letter before the slash is the volume number and the number after the slash is the page number.  The first sale to James Bailey is by Henry Caffey and his wife Isabella Jane.  All subsequent sales are by some combination of the widow and the children Francis, Levy Ann, and Robert.

 

a) Caffeys --> James Bailey, Feb 27, 1854, P/402, 36 1/2 acres

   James Bailey & Jethro McKee --> C. L. Bethje, Dec 3, 1857, T/430

b) Caffeys --> M. C. Adams, Apr 9, 1864, 13/90, 20 acres

c) Caffeys --> R. H. Roco, March 16, 1870, 8/462, 12 1/2 acres

 

For subsequent transactions in the Adams and Roco tracts see 17/72, 24/216, 26/540, 32/559, 32/619, 330/338, 131/408, 131/411, 192/7.

 

 

The following transactions refer to the Caffey tract south of the 12 1/2 tract that they sold to R. H. Roco mentioned in c) above.  The numbers refer to the accompanying maps.

 

1) Caffeys --> Tony Prass & Rachael Prass, Dec 12, 1870, 9B/99, 1 acre

2) Caffeys --> Zack Bryan (fmc), July 18, 1871, 10/78, 3 acres

3) Caffeys --> Moses Johnson, Apr 8, 1872, 10/407, 2 acres

               see also Caffeys --> John Ray, Barney Ray,

                                    May 23, 1898, 115/442

4) Caffeys --> Louis Lemmons, Nov 7, 1881, 41/129, 1 acre

5) Caffeys --> Edward Rosco, Nov 7, 1881, 24/231, .26 acre

6) Caffeys --> Ed Cobb, May 23, 1889, 50/241, 2 acres

7) Caffeys --> Albert Spiller, Nov 23, 1872, 17/253, 2 acres

8) Caffeys --> Charles Scott & wife, 1877, 21/788, 2 acres

9) Caffeys --> George Parker, May 23, 1889, 44/569, 10.9 + 3.6 acres

10) Caffeys --> Cy Dillingham, 1886, 43/99, 1/2 acre

11) Caffeys --> Frank Washington, Mar 18, 1886, 44/495, 1/2 acre

12) Caffeys --> Anthony Gomer, Mar 26, 1889, 49/173, 1.3 acre

13) Caffeys --> John Booker, Mar 16, 1886, 42/546, 3 acres

14) Caffeys --> Phillis Neal, Apr 12, 1880, 20/464, 2 acres

15) Caffeys --> Jerry Smith & wife, Mar 16, 1886, 41/204, 1 acre

16) Caffeys --> Prince Chaney, Feb 22, 1879, 18/473, 6.1 acres

17) Caffeys --> Emily McKissick, Mar 16, 1886, 75/187, 1 acre

18) Caffeys --> Austin Lee, Mar 18, 1886, 41/476, 7.8 acres

19) Caffeys --> Edward Rosco, Nov 7, 1881, 24/231, .92 acre for

                              cemetery

                Edward Rosco, Aug 22, 1894, 78/294, same tract

                Edward Rosco, July 5, 1897, 101/334, same tract

20) Caffeys --> W. E. Smith, Nov 7, 1881, 34/293, 1 acre

    Jeff Salter --> Albert Spiller, Oct 25, 1893, 74/662, 2 lots

21) Caffeys --> Mary Mayfield, July 21, 1885, 34/291, 2/3 acre

22) Caffeys --> H. F. Hurd, Feb 3, 1881, 28/69, 4 1/2 acres

                see also 61/212, June 24, 1892 for

                   lawsuit Hurd vs. George Parker

23) Caffeys --> H. F. Ring, Sept 12, 1890, 52/229, 1 acre

24) Caffeys --> W. J. Coulter, Feb 4, 1890, 55/288, 1.77 + 2.47 acres

25) Caffeys --> W. J. Coulter, Jan 7, 1892, 54/437, 1.74 acres

    W. J. Coulter --> B. A. Riesner, Sept 13, 1892, 60/457,

                      1.77+2.47+1.74 acres

26) Caffeys --> William Warnicke, July 27, 1888, 49/428, 3 1/2 acres

    Warnicke --> Davis

    Rozina P. Davis & J. O. Davis --> Wm. Fuchs, Feb 28, 1912, 285/138

27) Caffeys --> H. F. Hurd, Jan 31, 1893, 66/47, 1 lot in CHR

    H. F. Hurd --> B. A. Riesner, Aug 9, 1893, 68/655

28) Caffeys --> B. A. Riesner, May 6, 1893, 68/45, 1 lot in CHR

29) Caffeys --> B. A. Riesner, Sept 8, 1893, 71/106, 1 lot in CHR

30) Caffeys --> B. A. Riesner, July 17, 1895, 82/500, 1 lot in CHR

    B. A. Riesner --> Wm. Fuchs, 261/339, 6.9 acres

31) Caffeys --> trustees of M. E. Church, Mar 18, 1886,

                39/192, 1/2 acre

    Caffeys --> Zachariah Scott & wife Lizzie, June 1, 1889,

                45/108, 1/2 acre

 

I was never able to figure out precisely where the two tracts mentioned in 31) were located, but they are close to the tract numbered 31.  I was also not able to determine a location for the following 2 tracts.

 

d) Caffeys --> Cornelius  & Compey Goode, Feb 3, 1873, 2 acres

e) Caffeys --> G. M. Anderson, Oct 30, 1896, 94/148, 1 lot

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